SC Magazine goes on to cite Forum Sentry as “unmatched among its competitors” and advises readers to “Be sure to give this one a look.” Addressing any possible weaknesses, the magazine states, “None that we could find.”

SC Magazine Technology Editor Dr. Peter Stephenson lauded the Forum Systems Sentry API Gateway as a “comprehensive application security appliance that allows users to set up robust security over a variety of different protocols and data formats,” noting that “everything about the system was designed with security in mind.” The highly respected security industry expert highlighted that Forum Systems “is also unique in the sense that it sits in-line and functions as a layer 4-7 device. This allows it to maintain maximum security by getting a complete sense of everything flowing through the network.”

Notably, Stephenson applauded Sentry’s use of a console cable and serial port rather than a VGA port, saying “Sentry comes this way to enhance security: By communicating through a serial port, Sentry can completely lock down access to the kernel to make it tamper proof.”

“Whether it’s by attackers with criminal intent or from vulnerabilities like Shellshock in the products they’re deploying, organizations face an escalating battle to keep their IT systems up-and-running and robustly protected,” said Forum Systems CEO Mamoon Yunus. “At Forum Systems, a ‘lock down’ approach is core to our design because its delivers secure integration across channels, applications and infrastructure – and that enables secure access to data and services with centralized enforcement of game-changing security protection, identity enforcement and transaction management. We’re thrilled to earn such great honors from what’s widely considered the review magazine of record for the security industry. We thank SC Magazine, our customers and our partners for sharing the same vision of what constitutes best-in-class information security and privacy.”

Processing and securing more than 10 billion transactions per day worldwide, Forum Sentry significantly reduces the cost and complexity of centralizing security, identity and governance for hundreds of global organizations, including some of the world’s largest federal agencies. With the industry’s most comprehensive built-in support for data formats and communication protocols, Forum Sentry enables companies to rapidly integrate internal SOA and external RESTful systems.

The industry’s only FIPS 140-2 NDPP-certified API Gateway for enabling secure connectivity between users, applications and the cloud, Forum Sentry is the first Layer 4-7 device to achieve NDPP security certification, and holds the industry’s only patent for cryptographic acceleration of security processing.